M62 road works 50 limit

[robmlufc]

When will they stop growing????

[MEC]

Hull?

[MitchT]

Does anyone know if the 50mph speed limit is actually being enforced? I make regular trips between J26 and J29 of the M62 and I'm starting to feel like a bit of a plonker sitting there at 50mph while people sail past me at 70+, seemingly unperturbed by the threat of ‘average speed cameras’.

[bob1179]

I drive this every Monday morning and every Friday evening, the entire length of the road works. Not once have I seen anybody actually doing any work.

You'd think that on one of the busiest sections of motorway in the UK they would be encouraged to get a move on and work 24 hours.

I have to agree though, does everybody else around West Yorkshire know something I don't? I always set my cruise to 50mph and I am always overtaken by almost everything. I thought it might have been the speedo in my car being out, so when I did it in my other car the same thing happened.

Odd.

[Locke]

They do work, my Dad just got a ticket come through for him at 58mph, even though he sold the car 9 months ago. I wish they'd bloody hurry up with them, they'd get them sorted much faster in America.

[robmlufc]

I do J25 to J36 twice a day so most of the journey is in the 50 limit now, pretty sure they are only working a 5 mile section. Pretty sure 50% of the people on the road are in stolen cars or get 12 points a day as they fly past me!

[philmots]

It's ridiculous... They need to pull their head out their arses and make the whole lot 4 lanes rather than dicking about with managed motorways.

When a car/wagon breaks down on the '62 as the quite often do it will just cause more congestion as it'll be stuck in the middle of the lane with nowhere to go!

[Alice Cupra]

MitchT said:

Does anyone know if the 50mph speed limit is actually being enforced? I make regular trips between J26 and J29 of the M62 and I'm starting to feel like a bit of a plonker sitting there at 50mph while people sail past me at 70+, seemingly unperturbed by the threat of ‘average speed cameras’.

Apparently they are.......

Huddersfield Examiner said:

.....figures released by the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership show that last year, more than 11,000 drivers flouted the 50mph average speed cameras – more than 10 times the number caught the previous year.

[MitchT]

Alice Cupra said:

Huddersfield Examiner said:

.....figures released by the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership show that last year, more than 11,000 drivers flouted the 50mph average speed cameras – more than 10 times the number caught the previous year.

If that’s true then everyone I’ve seen flying past and making me feel like a subservient cretin has since been fined. Makes me feel a bit less foolish.

[Wills2]

Hateful stretch of road, I now drive over the tops to Wetherby then down the A1 on my weekly commute south.